Golestan 11th

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Title: Golestan 11th, Memoirs of Zahra Panahi Roa

Author: Behnaz Zarabizadeh

Translator: –

Publisher: Surah Mehr

Subject: Iran-Iraq war

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 216 p

Language: Farsi

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Golestan 11th is the work of Zahra Panahi.

“Golestan 11” is a quiet romance in the heart of war. Memoirs of Zahra Panahi Roa, the wife of Ali Chitazian, one of the martyred commanders of Hamadan province.

This book has been compiled in 17 chapters and starts from the birth of the martyr’s child until the narrator continues these days.

“Golestan 11” is more attractive to read than “Sheena’s daughter”. If in Zarabizadeh’s previous book it was a simple and sweet narrative that attracted the audience, in this book the author’s prose has become more mature; So that Zarabizadeh tries to create a different atmosphere by using new techniques. Creating a fluid flow of mind in the narration of memories, creating a space, preserving the accent of the characters in the book and characterization using dialogue are some of the techniques that can be understood in this book more than “Sheena Girl”.

Although this book shows the characteristics of a martyr, but more than that, we can see the situation of urban families in the war. Families who have sent several children to the front and none of them have returned, and while sad and sad, are trying to hope for the future and continue the path of their martyrdom. The lifestyle discussed in books such as “Golestan XI” is specific to the 60’s; A style that is sometimes recalled by flipping through photo albums.
Panahi Rawa is one of the wives of a martyr whose child is born after the martyrdom of his wife. Zarabizadeh also starts the book with the same part of the narrator’s life, it seems that he selects and narrates one of the most interesting parts of the book in the first chapter entitled “My life becomes a film”.

“I looked in the mirror for a moment. Ali Agha was looking at me. I was embarrassed. I quickly looked away and lowered my head. “This was the first time that Ali Agha saw me properly.” These sentences narrate the first moments of Zahra Panahirova and Ali Chitazian living together. A seventeen-year-old girl who is at the beginning of her youth and never imagines that years later, the story of her several months of life under the command of intelligence and operations of Ansar al-Hussein (as) will become an interesting and readable book called “The Eleventh Golestan”.
“I looked in the mirror for a moment. Ali Agha was looking at me. I was embarrassed. I quickly looked away and lowered my head. “This was the first time that Ali Agha saw me properly.” These sentences narrate the first moments of Zahra Panahirova and Ali Chitazian living together. A seventeen-year-old girl who is at the beginning of her youth and never imagines that years later, the story of her several months of life under the command of intelligence and operations of Ansar al-Hussein (as) will become an interesting and readable book called “The Eleventh Golestan”.

A beginning to an end
The book begins with a beautiful introduction by the author, where Behnaz Zarabizadeh realizes that the house of the Chitti family is right in front of her house and she has been unaware of it for years. Where the valley has recorded many bittersweet events of the story and the author was unaware of it until then. The point that creates a spark in the mind of the audience that there may be a martyr’s house next to our house and each martyr will tell his unique story.

After this introduction, the first chapter of the book, entitled “My Memories Will Be Filmed”, begins. The author has broken a habit in the field of narration with a beautiful initiative and begins the story of the joint life of Zahra Panahirova and Martyr Ali Chitsazian with artistic elegance from the material end of the common life and the martyrdom of the great martyr.
. This initiative of the author has made the book more and more attractive and confronts the reader with the attacker’s feelings at the beginning of the book, where the narrator has given birth to her child and, like any postpartum woman, has the greatest emotional and supportive need for He has a wife, but she suddenly remembers that her husband was martyred thirty-seven days ago in the Mawt area and she has to continue her life with her only memory without her physical presence.

 The hidden half of the moon
Until many years ago, books, films and stories always narrated a special and one-dimensional narrative of the lives of the martyrs and martyrs of the holy defense. Brave, courageous, faithful and self-sacrificing were the qualities that were remembered by the dear martyrs on the battlefields. But these martyrs always had a hidden half, and that was the way they interacted with their families, wives and children, few were aware of their love and affection within the family.

This became a concern when, in the face of the new generation, only an epic narrative was left in the geography of the front line of the martyrs, and nothing from their daily and ordinary lives was passed on to the next generations. This point was also pointed out by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution on 07/05/2016: “In expressing the biographies of the martyrs, we try to explain the characteristics of their lives, their lifestyles, and their way of life. This is important.
Well, the excitement of war and going to the battlefield is a valuable thing for people to take their lives and go and fight; But the spirits, the characteristics of life, the background and the intellectual and doctrinal support of the person is another issue that is very important. This martyr, whom you are excited by his memory and his sacrifice and martyrdom on the battlefield, how he behaved in family life, how he acted in normal life; These are very important; “Or how they acted on the issues that are important to us today.”

Golestan XI can be considered as a good and mature example of this type of narrations. Known on the front as a yellow scorpion for his fighting skills and bravery, he treats his mother and wife at home with such love and affection that it’s as if Raouf’s heart had never been in a fight. Golestan XI has been able to introduce an important part of the hidden half of the life of Martyr Chitasian to the audience in the most beautiful way.

Unique feminine look
In addition to all the charms and bitter and sweet events that exist in the life of the martyr Chitazisian and his wife, the author’s skill in conveying feminine feelings to the audience should not be overlooked. Behnaz Zarabizadeh has been able to maintain accuracy in detail and complete description of the feelings of a girl, a wife and a mother in the moment of the book events and well accompanied the audience of the book step by step with Ms. Zahra Panahirova.

The author has been able to use his unique feminine point of view and the narrator of the book in creating a sense of empathy of the audience and to describe both earthly and heavenly love in a suitable form. The book, which initially accompanies the audience with an earthly love, beautifully turns this love into a heavenly love as it approaches the end.
The climax of the book is where the body of the martyr is kept outside the city before burial to protect it from the bite of the hypocrites, and the family of the Chitasians goes to see the body of the martyr for the first time: Nobody said anything. We all stared in silence at the snow-covered ground behind the car windows.

A little later, at the bottom of the street, a container was found, behind a large truck. Several IRGC patrol cars were parked around. Several people got out of the ambulance and went in front of the container. We also got out of the car.
They opened the container door of the refrigerator. They lowered the coffin. Haj Sadegh walked forward with a crooked height and drooping shoulders. Mr. Nasser ran and hugged the coffin. My mother was holding my hand. They opened the coffin door. Ms. Mansoura Nalid: “O God, let me sacrifice you! May your mother die Ali! You slept here last night baby! … »Everyone cried. The mother sobbed. “I cried indifferently to those who stood around us.”

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